[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] memfd: fix possible usage of the uninitialized file descriptor

[Dima Stepanov]

The qemu_memfd_alloc_check() routine allocates the fd variable on stack.
This variable is initialized inside the qemu_memfd_alloc() function.
There are several cases when *fd will be left unintialized which can
lead to the unexpected close() in the qemu_memfd_free() call.

Set file descriptor to -1 before calling the qemu_memfd_alloc routine.

Signed-off-by: Dima Stepanov <address@hidden>
---
 util/memfd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/util/memfd.c b/util/memfd.c
index d248a53..6287946 100644
--- a/util/memfd.c
+++ b/util/memfd.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ bool qemu_memfd_alloc_check(void)
         int fd;
         void *ptr;
 
+        fd = -1;
         ptr = qemu_memfd_alloc("test", 4096, 0, &fd, NULL);
         memfd_check = ptr ? MEMFD_OK : MEMFD_KO;
         qemu_memfd_free(ptr, 4096, fd);
-- 
2.7.4